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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
get
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nevertheless he who hath wings hath no repose at most seasons, for that the good he getteth is not a fourth part of what ill betideth him, and the highmost aims of the creature are repose and ease of life.
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But getteth a receipt to present to thine accountant at tax time.
Charlie Carillo: Silent Night, Deductible Night Charlie Carillo 2011
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But getteth a receipt to present to thine accountant at tax time.
Charlie Carillo: Silent Night, Deductible Night Charlie Carillo 2011
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Your new identity might get you laid (although "back in the day" people said "getteth you lain"), or you might be severely beaten (or, in the language of the times, "catch a beatdown").
Rumblings of Change: The Future's So Loud, I Gotta Wear Earplugs BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Your new identity might get you laid (although "back in the day" people said "getteth you lain"), or you might be severely beaten (or, in the language of the times, "catch a beatdown").
Archive 2010-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Whatever -- the taxpayer getteth the "shaft," irregardlessly.
City Council votes to pay $9,000,000 for Elephant Hill Property to settle Lawsuit 2009
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He getteth a thousand dinars a month from the Caliph and Hasan Shuman hath the like.
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Pro 3: 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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Pro 3: 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Pursuit of Happiness 2006
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Indeed, I have worn out the mortars with beating wool and pounding drugs,186 and I am not to blame; the barrenness is with thee, for that thou art a snub-nosed mule and thy sperm is weak and watery and impregnateth not neither getteth children.
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